In 2022, the opening ceremony of the Beijing Winter Olympics was "ethereal, romantic, modern, and technological", and the comprehensive use of scientific and technological innovation achievements made it so distinctive, not only using digital performance and simulation technology throughout the process, but also pioneering the comprehensive use of artificial intelligence, 5G, AR, naked-eye 3D and cloud and other scientific and technological achievements.
In addition to the opening ceremony full of science and technology, the "Science and Technology Winter Olympics" is also the main feature of this Beijing Winter Olympics. On the first day of the Beijing Winter Olympic Torch Relay on February 2, the news of "robot underwater transmission of the Winter Olympic Torch" triggered a heated discussion among everyone. This is the first underwater torch relay between robots in olympic history.
Looks a lot like a curling pot from the outside. Holding a flaming torch, it spun along the curling track and slid into the ice cave entrance. At the same time, the underwater robot is also ready, its robotic arm tightly grasps the torch, constantly approaching the amphibious robot, and accurately takes the fire within 10 seconds, completing the transfer.
At the same time, guidance robots, delivery robots, logistics robots, cooking robots, food delivery robots, patrol robots, cashier robots... From the Olympic Village where the athletes live to the competition venues, service robots are everywhere.
Robots help prevent the epidemic of the Winter Olympics
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's (CBC) sports channel has released a video in which a robot finds a foreigner greeting it while at work not wearing a mask. Therefore, he immediately stopped "footsteps" and issued a reminder to "wear a mask". After the photographer said thank you, the robot left.
The robot in the video is the inspection robot of the Beijing Winter Olympic Games, which integrates public space patrol control, mask detection and early warning, thermal infrared temperature measurement, hand disinfection and other functions in one, safety and epidemic prevention. When patrolling, it can spot people who are not wearing masks within a radius of 5 meters and issue reminders to wear masks. The overhead is also equipped with a non-contact hand disinfection device, which automatically sprays disinfectant through the infrared sensing device of the overhead disinfection device.
In fact, this is just the tip of the iceberg of robots helping Beijing's winter Olympics epidemic prevention work.
Different from previous Winter Olympics, the Beijing Winter Olympics is not only a competitive event, but also faces a major test of epidemic prevention and control. Therefore, the use of robots to reduce personnel contact and form an epidemic protection network for the Beijing Winter Olympics with large traffic and complex personnel has become an important task.
At the entrance of major venues and Winter Olympic Villages, participants do not need to take off their masks, and can realize 8 inspection links of identity recognition, intelligent temperature measurement, health treasure, national health code, nucleic acid detection, vaccination, public security networking, and electronic registration in one second, and the temperature difference can be controlled within 0.2 °C.
Entering the venue area, there are robots responsible for cleaning and disinfection in various large public areas such as the spectator area, media workspace, staff area, athletes area, and competition hall.
The chassis of this type of atomized disinfection robot is equipped with vision sensors and lidar, scanning to identify the road ahead and avoid obstacles. Atomization disinfection robot can fill 16 liters of disinfectant water at a time, spraying agent through the four-way spray head overhead, and the disinfection area of a single robot can cover up to 1000 square meters, and the single endurance can reach 4-5 hours.
Compared with the traditional manual disinfection method, the robot can carry out the killing operation according to the pre-set task, and the staff can remotely control the pause, which can avoid the risk of personnel being infected and injured by chemical disinfectants during the operation. From this point of view, robots have incomparable advantages in disinfection effect, disinfection efficiency, and safety.
A robot restaurant that is really unmanned
In addition to helping epidemic prevention, robots are also acting as "volunteers", "waiters", "cooks" and so on in this Winter Olympics.
As the largest non-competition venue for the Beijing Winter Olympic Games, the Winter Olympic Village is also one of the venues with the longest service guarantee time, and different types of robots are also equipped in the Winter Olympic Village. For example, the delegation reception center located in the square area, which undertakes the registration of delegations during the game and the first stop of security inspection, has set up a reception robot to provide volunteer guidance, logo guidance, etc., which can guide athletes to the luggage storage area or lead athletes to the verification point, and athletes can check in after verification.
This type of reception robot has a variety of functions such as indoor positioning, path planning, pedestrian and roadblock avoidance, and sensing elevator congestion. Human body detection is carried out through the 1200 pixel camera in front of the head, and when the user is recognized within a maximum distance of 10 meters, it triggers the active greeting of the advertisement. When the user walks in, the man-machine distance is 1.5 meters, the robot is awakened and can carry out human-computer interaction.
Of course, this is not the place where the robots of the Beijing Winter Olympics are most concentrated, and the main media center restaurant of the Beijing Winter Olympics is the place where the robots are most concentrated, and it has become an "internet celebrity" before the opening of the Winter Olympics.
It is understood that the main media restaurant on the first basement floor covers an area of 2500 square meters, of which the automatic bar area covers an area of 412 square meters, the Chinese food cloud rail area covers 646 square meters, and the media dining area is 1522 square meters, with a total area of 5360 square meters.
The entire Beijing Winter Olympics kitchen is empty, and the chefs and service staff are robots. It is understood that the smart restaurant is equipped with 120 catering robots, and the intelligent and automated catering equipment in the restaurant can run 24 hours a day, ensuring that the whole process of ordering, preparing and serving food is automated, and can serve thousands of people at the same time.
Among them, when ordering food, you only need to scan the code on your mobile phone. In addition to authentic Chinese dishes on the menu, robot chefs can also make burgers, pizzas, cocktails, and other types of dishes. All the robots are behind transparent glass, so everyone can see the cooking process.
After the dish is made, it is picked up by the machine, and through the calculated optimal path, the dishes are transported to the table through a transparent glass track at the top of the restaurant, and the general delivery takes 2-4 minutes. When the robot moves above the desired table, a tray of food "descends from the sky" with the lowered cable.
In addition, a coffee robot is also set up in the restaurant. As long as the start button is pressed, the robot can start to take beans, weigh, take water, water, brew, and make a cup of "hand-brewed coffee" in 4 minutes.
In addition to the coffee robot, the intelligent bartending robot can also complete the complex blending like a human bartender, and at the same time perform intelligent shaking action, which can make a "high-value" cocktail in only 3-5 minutes.
It can be said that the media restaurant of the Beijing Winter Olympics is the most intelligent and intelligent restaurant in the history of the Olympic Games, the whole process of stir-frying and serving, all links are intelligent, not only delicious, efficient and clean and hygienic.
Robots are everywhere
Logistics and distribution is also another important task during the Beijing Winter Olympics. Under the background of the normalization of the epidemic, through the configuration of logistics robots, the delivery of goods can be more efficient and reduce personnel contact.
In the buffer zone of 4 meters between the two layers of iron horses inside and outside the closed loop of the Winter Olympic venues, intelligent logistics robots take on the work of transporting large items. It is understood that the load-bearing capacity of intelligent logistics robots is 30-300kg, which can move freely, avoid obstacles autonomously, recharge automatically, and can also intelligently plan paths. Workers in the clean area can call the logistics robot to their location through the configured intelligent terminal.
After the vehicle reaches the boundary between the clean area and the buffer zone, the staff simply places the items on the logistics robot, which will transport them to the unloading station. When the robot arrives, it notifies the pickup person via SMS, and the pickup person picks up the goods through the verification code. Once delivered, the robot will return to its docking station for disinfection and charging.
The venue is also equipped with a non-contact intelligent distribution cabinet, standing on the separation line between the closed loop and the closed loop, through the design of the "double-sided cabinet" to achieve two-way operation of storage and pickup, to solve the problem of the last kilometer of goods distribution.
In the media center, it is equipped with a contactless delivery robot, which can reduce the flow of media personnel and ensure that all the information materials needed by the media are delivered to various media areas.
At the Shougangyuan Shangri-La Hotel, one of the "official reception hotels for the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics", robots can also be seen shuttling and delivering objects. In this way, hotel delivery can not only guarantee 24-hour service, but also reduce cross-contact between people.
In addition, the Genting Ski Park is also equipped with AI monitoring function "intelligent sentry robot", with multi-spectral sensor as the core, can be at night, bad weather and other complex environments, with target recognition, multi-target tracking, foreign body detection, crossing warning and other functions, to achieve all-weather monitoring, effectively reduce the loss caused by various potential risks, improve the safety level of the Winter Olympic Ski Resort.
epilogue
Before the Beijing Winter Olympics, under the benefit of continuous development and upgrading of technology and market, service robots have entered all walks of life and served consumers from different aspects. The product types of service robots have also expanded from single sweeping robots, escort robots, and educational robots to high-end surgical robots, commercial cleaning robots, distribution robots, etc., and the product types have become more and more abundant.
According to IFR and The Chinese Institute of Electronics data, from 2016 to 2020, the global service robot market size growth CAGR is about 21.8%, and the market size is expected to be about 12.52 billion US dollars in 2021, and the service robot market size will exceed industrial robots in 2022, and will exceed 20 billion US dollars by 2023.
During the Winter Olympics, the application of robots in scenarios such as material distribution, inspection and reception, and epidemic prevention and detection is bound to push the application of robots to the outlet again. (This article was first published on the Titanium Media App, picture source network and enterprise, author | Han Jingxian, editor| Zhang Min)